The Jacksonville Jaguars coaching staff is expected to be safe for the 2013 season, even though general manager Gene Smith is likely to be fired after this season. The team brought in its new coaching staff last offseason, and all of the coaches received multiyear contracts. It isn't appealing to owner Shahid Khan to fire this staff and then have to pay two coaching staffs for a few seasons. According to sources, Khan has a good relationship with the coaching staff and knows that the coaches deserve more time to turn around the Jaguars considering the state of the team when they arrived.

Jacksonville Jaguars Shad Khan said this week he'll wait until after the season to evaluate the performance of head coach Mike Mularkey and general manager Gene Smith. "What I want to evaluate is really the organization," Khan said. "I think people are one part of it." Khan was vague when asked if Mularkey's on a longer leash just one year into coaching the team. "Some of these answers might not be satisfying," Khan said. "The simple fact is I really want to satisfy people in the short-term. But what's more important is the long-term. We don't (want to) make the wrong decisions now that we pay a price over time. This is a life lesson. You have to be concerned about short-term ... but you don't want to be making decisions that compromise the success of the organization in the long-term."

Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Gene Smith, assessing his team's roster after the NFL Draft, said he thinks the team has reached a point where it can challenge for the playoffs. "It's an ascending football team – I really believe that," Smith said. "I think we can be a playoff contender."